Update: signed sublease & paid deposit, now tenant is being evicted. Asked for money back, he's acting extremely flaky. Suggestions?

Update from this thread: after a few days the tenant told us that the landlord has started the process of eviction and that he's fighting to keep renting his apartment. He said he'd like to return our deposit through mail or wire transfer, but we preferred to deal in cash for practical reasons (we don't have a fixed address as we have to leave the place we're living in right now and are still looking for something else, and a wire transfer to our accouns in Europe would just needlessly drive up the costs imo).

We've set up a few dates to meet in person but he keeps cancelling or postponing them. We have never spoken to him on the phone since we last saw him about a month ago now and the ratio of email/text response is about 10 to 1. His latest excuse for not seeing us is that he's with his family in Jersey until the weekend, though we absolutely need the money to pay the deposit for a new place in the next few days. He doesn't seem particularly pressed to solve this problem and we're starting to believe this guy is not serious about wanting to returning our money.

As I said in the other topic, he works as a real estate agent and he is listed under his real name (I'm pretty sure that it is in fact his real name) on some real estate websites. We were thinking of pressurizing him by threatening to post our story with is name in it to this subreddit, some other NYC-related forums and my girlfriend's blog with his name explicit so when his future clients google his name they'll see he scammed us out of some money. If that doesn't work, we're thinking of starting a small claims lawsuit.

Do you guys have any other suggestions?